It's really easy to dismiss the claims that a rapidly declining bee population is a bad thing. You're not a fan of honey, so it's not like they really do anything for you, right? Wrong. This barren foodscape is pretty much what we'll be left with if bees go extinct. Read More >>

It used to be that you could only see these shimmering cloud formations, called noctilucent clouds, if you were in the North or South Pole. But lately they've been on the move, and though they're pretty to look at, their presence away from the Poles may be sign of climate change. Read More >>

Beta-Carotene, as far as I’ve known since I slogged through 8th grade biology, is a pigment that gives sweet potatoes and carrots their colour. But since it's used as a food dye and plenty of doctors recommend it as a supplement, it’s also the basis for a booming synthetic farming business—one we rarely see, since it’s based in rural Australia. But these photos, by Australian photog Steve Back, give us an unusual glimpse inside the world's largest β-Carotene farm. Read More >>

Initially, access to water defined where humanity could grow and develop. But now the opposite is true, and we're the ones directing the future of our global water system. Watching that transition unfold is as sobering as it is stunning. Read More >>

Take a deep breath. You're lucky to be able to. Without a handy blanket of atmosphere gases to swaddle us all, we'd be no more than a twinkle in evolution's eye. But that wonderful blanket of gas is slowly escaping, molecule by molecule, and there's not much we can do about it. Read More >>

Ah digital currency. It's all in our collective hive-mind right? Coming and going in bits and bytes. Nothing to see here. So why is a hacking process called "Bitcoin mining" using £95,000 worth of electricity a day? This had better be good. Read More >>

Between diminishing stores and oil wars, fossil fuel-dependence is officially a bad deal. In the future, as these resources get scarcer, we're going to have to figure out how to live in a little more harmony with Mother Earth. Here are 21 houses that are already doing it right: eschewing the power grid for solar, wind, and geothermal energy sources. Read More >>

I'd hate to be the IT guy fixing this network. By dropping electronic devices into the stomachs of cows and networking them together, researchers hope to reduce the climate-warming farts and burps they produce. Read More >>

The Pirate Bay recently made the switch to the cloud to basically make it indestructible, but apparently that wasn't the only motivation. TPB wants to save the planet too, and the cloud enables it to go properly green. In fact, it's probably the greenest site of that size, ever. Read More >>

Cars create a lot of pollution, but one in Chicago doesn't just give them free passage; it also cleans up after them. This street's special pavement actually feeds on smog. Read More >>

The public's apathy for electric vehicles might turn out to be a good thing if research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is to be believed, with the thinkers claiming that charging chemical car batteries using electricity from coal-fired power stations generates more pollution than building and running regular petrol engine models. Read More >>

There's a lot of data out there, and more and more is being created every day. It takes a lot of resources to keep it around, and make sure that you and everyone else can access what they want, when they want, with minimal downtime. Naturally this takes a lot of energy, but the New York Times looked into exactly how much. It's a ridiculous amount. Read More >>

Streaming is fast becoming the way most of us consume media, whether it's music, TV or film. But caught up by the sheer convenience of it all, it's easy to forget to question its environmental impacts. Could streaming actually be bad for the planet? Read More >>

Looks like Apple's suddenly rethought skipping out on the EPEAT environmental rating scheme. It seems when people start banning orders of Apple products, new post-Jobs Apple is quite happy to make sudden U-turns to protect its profits. Read More >>

In response to Monday's news that Apple had pulled 39 of its computers from EPEAT's green certification, Apple spokesperson Kristin Huguet today released the following statement to The Loop: Read More >>